"Do you think I'd leave a sick girl sitting out here all alone ?" Kate felt like apologizing.

It seemed rather small--that interrupting a death to save a life.
"Where do you live ?" her companion was asking.

She pointed to the quarters.

"In one of those ?" "The second one," Katie told her.

"And thank Heaven," she told herself, "the first one is closed!" "Lean on me," directed the girl in pink, with a touch of the gentle authority of strong to weak.